Our garden show, County Blooms, will be on Saturday, June 16 from 10:00 until 3:00 in the Wellington Town Hall. The flower show (11:30 – 3:00 after judging), Victorian tea, plant sale, kid’s activities, vendors and the silent auction will be our main features.
Full details for the Flower Show available through the link on right side of this page.
This year we would like to feature “Fairy Gardens” in our 2nd, hopefully annual, “informal” flower show.
Design: “Spring Thaw” water viewing design
Three entries tied for first place – Kathy Kingsley Bondy, Pat Stuckey, and Phyllis Davis (first row below), and Lise Bois placed second (second row below)
Display: Collection of early spring blooms
First place Pat Stuckey (below left), Second place Phyllis Davies (below centre), and Third place Kathy Kingsley Bondy (below right).
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Photographs © by Bert Jenkins
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Sam Shepherd
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Design – Stormy Weather – a design depicting movement: First place Pat Stuckey (below left), Second place Kathy Bondy (below centre), and Third place Phyllis Davies (below right).
Display – a succulent – any plant, including most cacti, which stores water in its fleshy stems or leaves:
First place Pat Stuckey (below left), Second place Phyllis Davies (below centre), and Third place Lise Bois (below right).
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Photographs © by Bert Jenkins
President Lise Bois opened the meeting by welcoming almost 40 members and guests. She reminded everyone about the OHA convention in Kingston on July 27, 28 and 29th of July, 2018.
She also talked about our upcoming seedling sale at the Wellington’s Farmers Market on Saturday, May 19th from 9 till 2, and encouraged everyone to start a few extra seedlings to donate to the sale.
Of course we will have our garden show, The County Blooms, on Saturday, June 16th. We will have an even bigger flower show. Flower show guide will be available by the end of this month, so stay tuned.
We will be having a garden tour on Sunday, June 24th. We now have about 8 gardens to date. We are still looking for a few more gardens, so if you think you would like your garden to be showcased in our tour please let us know. You don’t have to be a member to participate.
Lise Bois gave a presentation on the secrets of seed starting. Follow the links below (they are all small pdf files) to get the information presented, as well as complementary information.
Secrets of seed starting – 41 kb pdf
Companion Planting – 38 kb pdf
Plant families and crop rotation – 36 kb pdf
The 50/50 was won by Lise Bois. Winnings were donated to the society ($17.00).
This month, there were many entries in the mini-show. Members vote their preferences. The show is open to all. Give it a try!
Design Class – My Heart’s Delight: 1st – Laura Bryan (below left), 2nd – Ria Vandenberg (below centre), and 3rd – Sheila Simmons (below right).
Display Class – Most Unusual houseplant: 1st – Virginia Metcalfe (below left), 2nd – Kathy Bondy (below centre), and 3rd – John Garside (below right).
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Photographs © by Bert Jenkins
Our speaker for March 28th meeting will be Maria Gacesa from the Friends of Wellington Museum who will talk about the new heritage garden being designed for the museum. We will also have Sam Shepherd who is a local physiotherapist. He’ll talk to us about avoiding gardening injuries.
March Mini show will be:
Design – Stormy Weather – a design depicting movement
Display – a succulent – any plant, including most cacti, which stores water in its fleshy stems or leaves.
Please Note: There is no member meeting in January.
Approximately 40 members attended the festive pot luck dinner. A very good time was had by all!
Following the dinner, the Annual General Meeting was called to order by president Lise Bois.
The meeting was called to order by the President, who introduced District 3 President Penny Stewart.
Proceedings began with a motion to adopt the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 2016. There were neither questions, nor discussion of the motion which was deemed to be carried.
Year in Review: Lise ran through the highlights of a strong line-up of 2017’s speakers and the society activities, focussing particularly on the very successful Flower Show held in Wellington this year. The 2018 show will be held in Wellington in mid-June.
Membership: Membership is rising and currently stands at 80 members.
Treasurer’s Report:
The financial report was provided to all present, and briefly presented by John Garside. There were questions from the audience (which may be addressed in 2018), but no changes were required to the 2017 report which was duly approved.
Auditor Appointment: on a motion from John Garside, duly seconded, the continuation of Auditor services from the current provider was approved.
Certificates of Appreciation
President Lise Bois awarded certificates to those people who had provided extraordinary service during the year. Below, left to right: John Clark, Lise Bois, Pat Stuckey, and Sandra Dowds [award recipient Jan She absent from picture].
Election of Directors
Penny Stewart took the ‘chair’ to deal with the election. Lise introduced the members who had agreed to stand for election (through the prior work of the election committee) and invited nominations from the floor. There being none, those standing were duly elected by acclamation.
Left-to-right below: Ursula Cattelan, Lise Bois, Nancy Kish, John Garside, Kathy Bondy, John Clark, Darlene Johnston, Sally Clark, and Hedy Brambat-Kellar. 
Greetings from OHA
Penny Stewart gave a brief presentation with greetings from the OHA which wishes to thank volunteers (who contributed almost 520,000 hours of effort for the Association). Penny talked about the upcoming conference in Kingston for 2018.
Note: a more detailed account of Penny’s address is available as a 185kB Adobe pdf download here.
Kathy Bondy presented the society prizes for Flower Show categories as well as the monthly mini-show competition. Penny Stewart presented the prize for Kathy Bondy’s win.
Pat Stuckey: Best Iris
Pat Stuckey: Best annual/perennial
Pat Stuckey: Best Peony
Kathy Bondy: Overall mini-show points
The meeting concluded after Lise thanked all volunteers who had been involved with organizing the evening’s proceedings.
Photographs © by Bert Jenkins
The beautiful images posted for mini shows, garden shows, and our meetings are from photographs created by member Bert Jenkins.
